Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 249 The Clown Is Actually Myself

Some people want to ask why Hu Weiyong is in this muddy water.

The reason is very simple. First, he is the only prime minister, the teacher of all officials.Now that so many officials have accidents, how can he be a turtle?Do you want to lose your prestige?How can you be a prime minister when the street stinks?
Secondly, he is still counting on inheriting Han Hangong's mantle. If he doesn't follow up at this time, it will be useless to let him perform whatever he wants afterwards.

Whether you can not offend both ends depends on the old man's acting skills.Hu Weiyong secretly encouraged himself.

He followed Li Shanchang to the gate of the mansion, and when he was about to get into the car, he saw the eldest son Li Qi rushing back.

"Father, I got it." Li Qi was out of breath, and when he saw Hu Weiyong was there, he stopped abruptly.

"But it's okay to say, Prime Minister Hu is not an outsider." Li Shanchang said in a deep voice.

Li Qi then reported to his father what he had heard, and it was almost the same as what Hu Weiyong said, but he also learned a little more.

"I heard that what they want to search are blank ledger papers, that is, ledger papers with official seals but no content. If there is such a thing in the official's belongings, it will be tied up directly..."

"Empty printed account paper?" Li Shanchang was Zhu Yuanzhang's logistics team leader, so how could he not know the existence of this thing.He was stunned for a while: "Isn't this a very common thing? What's the fuss about?"

Immediately, his face changed again, realizing the brilliance of this move.

Originally, Li Shanchang thought that the emperor was arresting people because of his words, and this was something he could fight for.Because what is said is what is said, there is no evidence for what is said, and no one will leave evidence, so there is room for him to argue.

But in any case, it is a sin to carry blank stamped paper with you.And there is physical evidence, no one can deny it.

Even if Li Shanchang wanted to defend them, he had to defend on the premise of admitting that they had committed a crime.

Since a crime has been committed, it is only natural for him to be locked up and tried again.

Now Boss Zhu hasn't said how to convict them, so he hastily jumped out. Apart from accusing them first, he can only put himself in it...

Because the courtiers are naturally at a disadvantage when arguing with the emperor, so they must first take advantage of the reason.If you can't take advantage of reason, then only reckless people can win.

He asked himself that apart from hobbies, he had nothing in common with Cao Cao.Boss Zhu is not Han Xiandi, but Han Gaozu...

Li Shanchang would not do such a thing that he knew he would lose.Otherwise, won't you be seen through your underwear?

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When the carriage was about to reach the left gate of Chang'an, Mr. Han Han, who had been meditating silently, suddenly said, "Turn around."

"Ah?" Hu Weiyong and Li Qi were taken aback.

"Go back!" Li Shanchang gritted his teeth and said.

"Yes, dad." Li Qi naturally said what he said, and quickly told the driver to turn around and go home.

"Enxiang, do you leave them alone?" Hu Weiyong couldn't ignore them.

"Of course we have to take care of it, but we can't do it now." Li Shanchang glanced at him, and asked quietly: "Mr. Hu, why didn't you tell the old man that the higher-ups wanted to investigate the empty seal case?"

"My subordinates don't know." Hu Weiyong hurriedly explained: "I rushed to report the news as soon as I heard the news. At that time, I didn't know that what the emperor wanted to investigate was the empty seal case."

"Oh, that's it." Li Shanchang nodded, and changed the topic: "You go back to Zhongshu immediately, and let the people in the household department wipe their butts quickly."

"I'm afraid it's too late?" Hu Weiyong said.

"Wipe as much as you can." Li Shanchang said in a deep voice.

"Understood." Hu Weiyong nodded and got out of the car.

"Li Qi, hurry up and spread the news that the emperor is going to investigate the empty seal case," Li Shanchang told the eldest son again: "The less you pay, the more you pay."

"Yes, father." Li Qi responded and got out of the car quickly.

After there were no other people in the car, Li Shanchang took off all the disguise, closed his eyes in pain, and hit the back of his head against the wall of the car.

He used to think that he had already killed the emperor.

Only now do I know that Boss Zhu counted him to death...

What scares Han Gong the most is that none of the honorable men who vowed to advance and retreat with him have come yet.

He didn't believe that those fearless guys would be timid. This only showed that Boss Zhu had made preparations in advance and had firmly controlled the army.Don't give him a chance to get lucky at all.

Li Shanchang has no doubt that if he does something drastic tonight, Boss Zhu will kill him with his backhand.

Facing such a founding emperor who was called a brother one moment and dared to flip the table the next, he actually wanted to force him to give in.It's so ridiculous...

The clown turned out to be me.

Li Shanchang covered his hot cheeks with his hands, wishing he could disappear from this world.

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The sky is bright, and the New Year's firecrackers sound from all over Nanjing City.

Amidst the crackling sound of firecrackers, the officers and soldiers of the government army retreated one after another.

With the physical evidence they collected, they tied the officials who committed the crime into strings with ropes, and escorted them back to the pro-military captain's mansion from all directions.

Thanks to Li Qi's timely dissemination of news, many local officials also burned all the empty ledger papers before the arrival of the officers and soldiers, and escaped by luck.Now mixed among the crowd of onlookers, I watched with lingering fear the dejected and disheveled colleagues who were tied up and paraded through the streets, disgraced.

But there are advantages and disadvantages in everything, because the subordinates who spread the news are so powerful that the common people know that these officials were arrested for carrying blank accounting paper.

The common people's first reaction when they heard this was, "Officials from government offices at all levels across the country are holding a bunch of blank stamped papers and discussing how to fill in this year's national tax"?

They all went through the dark period at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and they immediately thought of empty wages, exorbitant taxes, corruption and bribery... these words are most hated by the common people.

Just in time for Chinese New Year, each family is full of domestic garbage, so they greet these damned corrupt officials with rotten vegetable leaves, rotten eggs, and swill.

If it weren't for the officers and soldiers of the pro-military captain's mansion, these criminals would have been beaten to death by the angry people...

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The officers and soldiers of the government army went through untold hardships, and finally escorted all the criminals back to the Yamen.

Liu Ying ordered the prisoner to be taken into custody, and at the same time collected the gains of various people and horses, and reported it to the emperor immediately.

In the Hall of Martial Arts.

Boss Zhu asked Liu Ying and Eunuch Wu to spread all the blank ledger papers on the floor, and then he counted them himself.

"330 five, 330 six, 330 seven..." Standing on the golden platform, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the blank ledger papers all over the hall, and said to the prince slowly:

"A total of 330 seven copies."

"Yes." The prince nodded.

"There are 130 provinces, [-] prefectures, and [-] counties in the country." Zhu Yuanzhang did some calculations and said, "There is only one out of four. Are the three all right?"

"The number of officials is too many, and the residences are scattered, so there is no way to catch them all at once. There must be a lot of fish that slipped through the net." Liu Ying knelt down and explained: "The news leaked in the middle of the night, and more people got away with it. "

"A quarter is already a lot." The prince said in a low voice, "Is it really going to be done in one pot?"

"Humph..." Zhu Yuanzhang snorted and didn't speak again.

(End of this chapter)